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"The report neatly disarms arguments that Hussein's WMD programs were non-existent after the first Gulf War."

No one says they were nonexistent. They were INACTIVE. UNMOVIC was monitoring them. Read the report (available at the UN website), you will see the Iraqi weapons found in scrap yards world wide have UN tags. That is because they were under inspectors supervision (despite all the many many faults of the UN, they are good bureaucrats). And you should notice these are old weapons, and there is no evidence of active programs, even after more than a year of U.S. hunting high and low.

"The implications of the United Nations' discovery of how Hussein's regime got rid of many of its banned weapons programs is staggering, especially considering that it happened partly under the watch of U.N. weapons inspectors."

Nice weasel language "partly". Sure weapons were looted and trickled out of Saddam's stashes. But during the U.S. invasion and chaos they POURED out. That is staggering. They show before and after satellite pictures of weapon sites before and after the invasion in the report -- overflowing before, stripped down to nothing after. Take a look, it is staggering.

This fiasco has done the opposite of what Bush wanted -- created another underground market of as he says over and over "the worlds most dangerous weapons." Instead of a stable country where we can keep our eye on Heinous Hussein, now old chemical rockets and who knows what have looted by…well, we don't know who…for…well, we don't know what for. Talk about proliferation!

Let's not even get into how much this is all costing the US tax payer.

p>It hurts me to say it, but W and Company are discrediting our party with misadventuring and, something they promised not to do (just another campaign promise?), "NATION BUILDING." br> -- JW br> Weston, Connecticut /p> p> Thanks for the article on Weapons of Mass Destruction. You are doing much better than our media and lost newspapers! They are afraid to reveal any truths and relied on silly Hans Blix's word. Please keep up the good work. br> -- Susanne Olson br> Global Support Voice Services

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